Bill Moyers Interview With Rev. Jeremiah Wright »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsBill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama.
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Hobe1 year, 8 months ago
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
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You're right...I was gonna vote for Obama but I guess I'll vote instead for John McCain--the guy who hates the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Yeah...That is just what I'll do. Thanks for helping me narrow down my choices, daystar. ;-P
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Howtogo1 year, 8 months ago
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Come on Moyer, you never once asked Rev. Wright what he meant by "they are wrong about what I said." Anyone that has seen or heard this racist pastor's video's known what he said. It is mind boggling to me why this racist is still spouting off things that has and will continue to hurt Obama's chances for election (primary & main election).
Moyer is a true lefty and would never confront any one or anything that could hurt the extreme left point of view. Rev. Wright knew he was in a safe area for this interview.
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cushi1 year, 8 months ago
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I don't know if Moyer was sympathetic to Rev. Wright prior to his interview or not, but I know he is now that he is on the receiving of some of the same twisted, vicious, illogical hatred that Rev. Wright has been subjected to.
I'll bet comments like yours have really opened his eyes to extreme right wing fanaticism!
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bubba21 year, 8 months ago
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Did any of you WATCH the interview or READ the transcript?
Moyers DID ask Wright what he meant by "they are wrong about what I said".
Also, they aired a significant amount of the sermon from which the soundbites were grabbed, and the context of ALL of what he said does NOT match with how those soundbites were portrayed.
As usual, you take at FACE value what some right-wing pundit says about what someone ELSE said and you don't bother to evaluate all of the facts.
The "disgrace" is the rush to label someone without ever really knowing who or what they are, or even ATTEMPTING to do so.
And the only "cat out of the bag" is your blatant BLINDERS-ON hatred and bias of anyone that the right-wing talking-heads ridicule or bash and do so with very LITTLE fact or documentation to back up their attacks.
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vor1 year, 8 months ago
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They won't watch this interview or if they do view it they cannot shake their preconceived notions. They would rather continue steering America into the ditch than have a black man lead them. Pathetic. Obama handled this brilliantly, his speech on Rev. Wright and race should be compared to the best speeches of MLK. But of course those who refused to listen to Dr. King do not listen to Barack Obama either.
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hamy1 year, 8 months ago
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I am sorry to be the one to say this, but most of what Wright talks about in his sermons is true. The government puts far more black Americans in jail than white Americans for the same crimes. Crack cocaine was pushed on the lowest economic classes which typically are black. The sentence is far less for powdered coke than crack. These are examples of the inherent racism in our government.
He's not wrong. And if you don't like looking in the mirror, that's your problem, not his.
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nikkibabe1 year, 8 months ago
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Rev. Wright has said what black americans have endured and continue to do so. Also, he has done lot good things to the parish and community. For those who don't believe in him is like trying to wake up people who are pretending to be sleeping.
Sometime truth hurts. Ex. Bush can never admit his mistakes and blunders that has brought the country to its knees.
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simonsez1 year, 8 months ago
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It's not even about who is right or wrong, it's about votes and these kinds of issues turn voters off. Between this and his comment in San Fransisco, Obama has damaged his chances tremendously to win.
I don't think he can recover the voters he needs to win ...
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NoWayMan1 year, 8 months ago
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um, he was over 20 points down in PA before "bittergate" happened, then he lost by only 10.
and nationally right now, Obama is up on Hillary in every single poll exept gallup, where they're tied. in 4 of the major polls he has double-digit leads, and in the newsweek poll he's up by 19 points!!
vs. McCain, Obama is ahead in 4 of the major polls, they're tied in three, and McCain leads in just one (rasmussen, the one owned and operated by a republican evangelical christian)
so, he has already recovered, and you're obviously wrong.
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bubba21 year, 8 months ago
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" ... these kinds of issues turn voters off ..."
The MEDIA made the soundbites of Wright an issue, NOT the people and NOT the candidates.
And Wright is correct -- the media had very specific reasons and intentions for extracting specific soundbites from his sermons and looping them over and over on the air.
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
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"It's not even about who is right or wrong, it's about votes and these kinds of issues turn voters off. "
--I see...So then you also agree that the fact that the Right wing is manufacturing a controversy and using it to exploit and deepen the racial divide in America will backfire on your asses come election time, right? Cool.
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vor1 year, 8 months ago
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The bottom line is that racism is very much still evident in America. As a lily white Southern boy I am often privy to conversations those of ethnicity seldom hear. How many more times am I going to hear, "I ain't voting for no n-gg-r!" before the convention. I keep my views pretty much to myself at work so they assume I am in lockstep agreement. Because about 80% of the white males in my office appear to believe the same way. You would think we were still living in the 50's in the South. Shameful is what it is.
Where I live there is plenty of white trash. I pick up their beer cans by the roadside everyday in my neighborhood and I don't live in the ghetto by any means. These folks have no right to be condescending. Most are certainly nowhere near Obama's level of intelligence. But this is what we still are as a nation.
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slate1 year, 8 months ago
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The bottom line is that racism is very much still evident in America. As a lily white Southern boy I am often privy to conversations those of ethnicity seldom hear. How many more times am I going to hear, "I ain't voting for no n-gg-r!"
VOR it seems to me that you need to change the company you keep if you hear that sort of talk, especially at work. Do you mind telling me where you live?
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NoWayMan1 year, 8 months ago
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great interview. one of the more interesting parts of the interview was Wright's military history. he was in the marines for 2 years and then served in the Navy for 4 years as a cardiopulmonary technician.
moyers then showed a photo of LBJ recovering from his gall bladder surgery when he was president. the operation was performed at Bethesda Naval. in the photo a young Wright is standing over LBJ, monitoring the president's heart rate. and just behind Wright was Bill Moyers, LBJ's then-press secretary.
interesting photo. sure didn't look like he hated America.
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stephen-johnson1 year, 8 months ago
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FTA:
BILL MOYERS: So, when Trinity Church says it is unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian, is it embracing a race-based theology?
REVEREND WRIGHT: No, it is not. It is embracing Christianity without giving up Africanity.
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stephen-johnson1 year, 8 months ago
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Moyers, of course, lets this answer go by without asking anything about the Black Liberation theology of James Cone, whom Wright credits as an inspiration.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_theology#Jam...
""Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love"
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bubba21 year, 8 months ago
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You are trying to put words into Wright's mouth that he did NOT say.
Using the old "guilt by association" tack ... just like the current cadre of neo-cons SPIN meisters on FOX and most of the mainstream media.
That tactic only works for people who are not discerning enough to see PAST it and see how SHALLOW such an attempt is to try to 'discredit' someone.
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
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So he was inspired by someone with extreme views. Why are you pretending that's unprecedented. Even people who could be described as pure evil have redeemable qualities. Look at Reagan. Charismatic and chilling at the same time. And even Bush. OMG I mean, the guy has made life hell on earth (mostly for Americans) the last 8 years but when people see him, they can't help but be reminded of a dog chasing its tail. He's cute and clown-like without really trying. When we see him do mindless things we know it's ingrained behavior. The thing is, no matter how many times you see him do something stupid, you can't NOT laugh.
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nostalgia1 year, 8 months ago
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I watched the ibterview last evening
This is what I found somewhat perplexing
"He's (Obama) a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. Those are two different worlds. I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician. But he did not disown me because I'm a pastor."
So according to Wright the Obama speech in Philadelphia was simply Obama responding as a politician
I thought that was a very interesting comment
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cushi1 year, 8 months ago
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What was so interesting about that? Are you not aware that Barack Obama is a politician? Isn't everyone who runs for political office considered a politician?
Are you saying that Barack claims not to be a politician? What he claims is to want to be a different kind of politician: one who seeks to unite, one who seeks to bring hope and a rejuvenation of a country whose morale is at an all time low, one who is willing to engage in honest conversation on the pressing issues of our time.
Of course Obama responded as a politician - that's what he is! How did you expect him to respond? As a preacher?
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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Amen, Rev. Wright!
Do No Evil â;; I am watching the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Bill Moyers' Journal on PBS. It's quite a revelation. He is wonderful, wise, and brave. He's speaking some harsh but necessary truths. If you have not seen this interview, you owe it to yourself and your country, if you are interested in justice, honesty, healing, and truth, to watch it all the way through.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/26/...
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jaern1 year, 8 months ago
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somaspecial1 year, 8 months ago
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By denying there is racism towards whites (usually referred to as "reverse racism"), you create more racism against blacks in the future.
The way it works is, a 15 year-old white boy goes in a book store and sees books with titles like, "Stupid White Men". He knows you can't make a book called, "Studid Black Men". And this mentality of it's okay for them but not for me hits him over and over again until he evolves (understandably) a victim mentality which shapes (wrongly) an attitude blaming black people in general.
To be on guard against racism means to be against it from every direction.
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 8 months ago
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http://www.eaglebookclubs.com/products/BookPage...
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
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"you create more racism against blacks in the future."
--Which explains why 90% of the black electorate doesn't trust Republicans.
"He knows you can't make a book called, "Studid Black Men".
--And why exactly would someone who was supposedly intelligent and well-adjusted be compelled to respond to such a book in kind?
"And this mentality of it's okay for them but not for me hits him over and over again..."
--I see... that does sound serious. So, if I understand you, this disadvantaged and oppressed white kid is at the galleria bookstore being emotionally scarred because everywhere he goes, he's reminded that white people are "stupid." And this belief somehow gets ingrained even though he's been raised in a country where the vast majority of those with power are white. That is soooo eerie. It's almost like it's 1968 all over again--but just in the mind of someone living in an inverted, schizoid parallel universe. Intriguing, to be sure.
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ETproductions1 year, 8 months ago
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I watched the full interview, and finally had a chance to see where Dr. Wright was coming from. If all you know about this is from the MSM or Talk Radio loops, then you know NOTHING about it except a deliberate smear campaign. Did he say some things I disagree with. Yes. But believe me, he is no lunatic and he is also no hater of America. He hates some things that America has done. So do I. But this man is a true believer and a patriot.
At the end of the interview, my wife, who is an avid Hillary supporter, was mad at Obama for his speech distancing himself from Wright. He thought he threw a good man under the bus! Oh well, Obama can't catch any breaks with her.
But if all you ever care to know about your country comes from the MSM or talk radio, you will NEVER understand why she felt that way. Oh, and you will also never understand what's really going on behind your eyes.
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Mutainia1 year, 8 months ago
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Nice to see Wright changing his tune. Now IF Americans can believe he's ALways been this way, (and just taken out of context is all), Obama might have a chance. Of course, Obama DID mention that Wright is controvercial. I guess it depends on how much so in the hearts of the voters.
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tchef1 year, 8 months ago
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After reading the posts by the people who think he's a nut job I can clearly see that they still can't see past the sound bites. Nowhere does he preach hate in fact if you listen to what he's saying he is trying to lead his congregation away from hatred and revenge.
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